THE 

MARCHING 
MORROWS 


UBfMfi,-,,  ,; 


Morrow 


TAKE  HEART  WITH  THE  DAY 


BOSTON,  MDCCCCI 


W.  E.  I.  U. 

UNION  OF  ALL  FOR  THE  Y 
GOOD  OF  ALL 


NOW  GIRD  THEE  WELL  FOR  COURAGE, 

MY  KNIGHT  OF  TWENTY  YEAR, 
AGAINST  THE  MARCHING  MORROWS 

THAT  FILL  THE  WORLD  WITH  FEAR! 

YET  FEAR  THOU  NOT  !  IF  HAPLY 

THOU  BE  THE  KINGLY  ONE, 
THEY'LL  SET  THEE  IN  THEIR  VANGUARD 

TO  LEAD  THEM  ROUND  THE  SUN 

BLISS  CARMAN 


Daughters  of  Time,  the  hypocritic  Days, 

Muffled  and  dumb  like  barefoot  dervishes. 

And  marching  single  in  an  endless  file, 

Bring  diadems  and  fagots  in  their  hands. 

To  each  they  offer  gifts  after  his  will, 

Bread,  kingdoms,  stars,  and  sky  that  holds  them  all. 

I,  in  my  pleached  garden,  watched  the  pomp, 

Forgot  my  morning  wishes,  hastily 

Took  a  few  herbs  and  apples,  and  the  Day 

Turned  and  departed  silent.  I,  too  late, 

Under  her  solemn  fillet  saw  the  scorn. 

EMERSON 


SPIRE,  break  bounds,  I  say, 

Endeavor  to  be  good,  and  better  still, 
And  best.  Success  is  nought,  endeavor's  all. 

BROWNING 

2 

PERSEVERANCE  sometimes  equals  genius.  An 
Eastern  proverb  says  "Only  two  creatures  can 
surmount  the  pyramids,  the  eagle  and  the  snail." 

3 

IF  you  want  knowledge  you  must  toil  for  it;  if  good 
you  must  toil  for  it;  and  if  pleasure  you  must  toil 
for  it.  Toil  is  the  law.  Pleasure  comes  through  toil,  and 
not  by  self-indulgence  and  indolence.  When  one  gets 
to  love  his  work  his  life  is  a  happy  one. 

RUSKIN 


w 


I 


ILT  thou  seal  up  the  avenues  of  ill? 
Pay  every  debt,  as  if  God  wrote  the  bill. 

EMERSON 

5 

T  matters  not  how  much  wood  I  burn,  but  what 
I  do  when  I  get  warm.  THOREAU 


January 


EVERY  day  is  a  fresh  beginning, 
Listen,  my  soul,  to  the  glad  refrain, 
And,  spite  of  old  sorrow  and  older  sinning, 
And  puzzles  forecasted,  and  possible  pain, 
Take  heart  with  the  day  and  begin  again. 


7 

AND  I  will  thread  a  thread  through  my  poems 
jf"\_     that  time  and  events  are  compact, 
And  that  all  the  things  of  the  universe  are  perfect 
miracles,  each  as  profound  as  any. 


And  I  will  not  make  a  poem,  nor  the  least  part  of  a 
poem,  but  has  reference  to  the  soul. 

WALT  WHITMAN 

8 

SHOULD  others  of  thy  friend  speak  ill, 
Though  meaning  well,  it  may  be,  doubt  them  still. 
Let  all  the  world  his  good  name  rend, 
Mistrust  the  world,  but  not  thy  friend. 
Be  deaf  to  slander,  in  defence  not  slow, 
If  thou  heaven's  gift,  a  friend,  wouldst  know. 


January 


EFE  is  short,  and  we  have  never  too  much  time  for 
gladdening  the  hearts  of  those  who  are  travel- 
ling the  dark  journey  with  us.  Oh!  be  swift  to  love, 
make  haste  to  be  kind!  AMIEL 


N 


10 

PATRIOTISM 

OT  the  mere  holding  a  great  flag  unfurled 
But  making  it  the  goodliest  in  the  world. 


I    I 

Bayard  Taylor,  born  1825 

BE  just  at  home;  then  write  your  scroll 
Of  honor  o'er  the  sea, 
And  bid  the  broad  Atlantic  roll, 
A  ferry  of  the  free. 

For  He  that  worketh  high  and  wise, 

Nor  pauses  in  His  plan, 
Will  take  the  sun  out  of  the  skies 

Ere  freedom  out  of  man.  EMERSON 


I 


12 

F  that  thou  seekest  thou  findest  not  within  thee, 
thou  wilt  never  find  it  without  thee. 

FROM  THE  ARABIAN 


SOME  of  your  ills  you  have  cured, 
The  sharpest  you  still  have  survived; 
But  what  torments  of  grief  you  've  endured 
From  evils  which  never  arrived. 


A 


'4 

MAN  is  bound  to  think  of  all  just  excuse  for 
his  offender.  MARCUS  AURELIUS 

15 

HE  who  bends  to  himself  a  joy 
Does  the  winged  life  destroy ; 
But  he  who  kisses  the  joy  as  it  flies, 

Lives  in  eternity's  sunrise.  ,TT  „ 

WILLIAM  BLAKE 

16 

THE  music  that  will  farthest  reach 
And  cure  all  ill,  is  cordial  speech. 

EMERSON 

17 

Benjamin  Franklin,  born  1706 

IF  a  man  empties  his  purse  into  his  head  no  man 
can  take  it  from  him.  FRANKLIN 


January 

18 


Daniel  Webster,  born  1782 
I  BERT  Y  and  Union,  now  and  forever,  one  and 
inseparable!  DANIEL  WEBSTER 


Edgar  Allan  Poe,  born  1809 

HAST  thou  not  dragged  Diana  from  her  car? 
And  driven  the  Hamadryad  from  the  wood 
To  seek  a  shelter  in  some  happier  star? 

Hast  thou  not  torn  the  Naiad  from  her  flood, 
The  Elfin  from  the  green  grass,  and  from  me 
The  summer  dream  beneath  the  tamarind  tree? 

EDGAR  ALLAN  POE  IN  ODE  TO  SCIENCE 

20 

THE  moment  we  feel  angry  in  controversy  we 
have  already  ceased  striving  for  truth,  and  be- 
gun striving  for  ourselves. 

21 

A  SNEER  is  the  weapon  of  the  weak.  Like  other 
devil's  weapons  it  is  always  cunningly  ready  to 
one's  hand,  and  there  is  more  poison  in  the  handle 
than  in  the  point.  LOWELL 


22 

TRUTH  forever  on  the  scaffold,  Wrong  forever 
on  the  throne,  — 
Yet  that  scaffold  sways  the  future,  and  behind  the 

dim  unknown 

Standeth  God  within  the  shadow,  keeping  watch  above 
His  own.  LOWELL 

23 

BETTER  trust  all  and  be  deceived, 
And  weep  that  trust  and  that  deceiving, 
Than  doubt  one  heart  that  if  believed 

Had  blessed  one's  life  with  true  believing. 

FRANCES  ANNE  KEMBLE 

24 

IT  may  not  be  of  the  least  consequence  how  you 
feel  but  it  is  of  very  great  consequence  how  you 
make  others  feel. 


. 

BEFORE  beginning,  and  without  an  end, 
As  space  eternal  and  as  surety  sure, 
Is  fixed  a  Power  divine  which  moves  to  good, 
Only  its  laws  endure. 


January 

26 


SOME  wants  the  earth;  yes,  an'  there  do  be  some 
That's  everlastin'  wantin'  "Kingdom  Come" — 
You  hang  to  what  you  've  got,  an'  leave  the  rest 
To  them  as  ain't  contented  here  at  hum. 

MARY  YOUNGS 

27 

OUR  urgent  need  is  not  a  greater  city  or  coun- 
try, in  respect  to  extent  and  dominion,  and 
numbers,  but  a  greater  humanity,  the  result  of  ex- 
tending the  individual. 

ABBY  MORTON  DIAZ 

28 

OH,  well,  o'  course,  if  we  could  shift  the  plan 
O'  Heaven  and  Earth,  to  meet  the  mind  o'  man, 
We  might  be  happy  for  a  while — but  laws! 
Folks  ain't  been  suited  sence  the  worP  began! 

MARY  YOUNGS 

29 

WHERE  are  there  two  things  so  opposite  and 
yet  so  nearly  related,  so  unlike  and  yet  so 
hard  to  be  distinguished  from  each  other,  as  humility 
and  pride? 


January 

3° 

A  MAN'S  strength  measures  his  duty  to  others, 
not  his  claim  on  them. 

31 

EVIL  like  a  rolling  stone  upon  a  mountain  top, 
A  child  may  first  set  off,  a  giant  cannot  stop. 

TRENCH 


Oh  the  dear,  delightful  sound 

Of  the  drops  that  to  the  ground 

From  the  eaves  rejoicing  run 

In  the  February  sun! 

Drip,  drip,  drip,  they  slide  and  slip 

From  the  icicles  bright  tip, 

Till  they  melt  the  sullen  snow 

On  the  garden  bed  below. 

"Bless  me  I  what  is  all  this  drumming?" 

Cries  the  crocus,  "I  am  coming" 

CELIA  THAXTER 


THOU  God  of  all!  infuse  light  into  the  souls  of 
men,  whereby  they  may  be  enabled  to  know 
what  is  the  root  from  which  their  evils  spring,  and 
by  what  means  they  may  avoid  them. 

PRAYER  OF  EURIPIDES 


E 


VERY  article  of  luxury  has  to  be  paid  for,  not 
in  money  but  in  labor. 


3 

'^  |  ^  IS  easy  enough  to  be  pleasant 
X       When  life  flows  along  like  a  song, 

But  the  man  worth  while  is  the  man  who  will  smile 
When  everything  goes  dead  wrong. 


AN  injustice  to  one  is  a  menace  to  all. 

MONTESQUIEU 

5 

HE  dead  carry  in  their  hands  only  that  which 
they  have  given  away. 

INGERSOLL 


T 


M 


ANY  men  owe  the  grandeur  of  their  lives  to 
their  tremendous  difficulties. 

SPURGEON 


7 

THE  tomb  is  not  a  blind  alley,  but  a  thorough- 
fare. It  closes  in  the  twilight,  to  open  with  the 

dawn.  Tr  TT 

VICTOR  HUGO 

8 

John  Ruskin,  born  1819 

IT  is  only  by  labor  that  thought  can   be  made 
healthy;  and  only  by  thought  that  labor  can  be 
made  happy.  RUSK]N 


T 


HROUGH  the  wide  world  he  only  is  alone 
Who  lives  not  for  another. 


IO 

SOW  an  act  and  reap  a  habit;  sow  a  habit  and 
reap  a  character;  sow  a  character  and  reap  a  des- 
tiny. ,-r 

3  1  HACKERAY 


Lydia  Maria  Child,  born  1802 

Ar D  though  I  've  learned  some  souls  are  base, 
I  would  not,  therefore,  hate  the  race, 
I  still  would  bless  my  fellow-men, 
And  trust  them,  though  deceived  again. 
God  help  me  still  to  kindly  view 
The  world  that  I  am  passing  through. 

LYDIA  MARIA  CHILD 

12 

Abraham  Lincoln,  born  1809 

E!,T  us  have  faith  that  right  makes  might;  and  in 
that  faith  let  us,  to  the  end,  dare  to  do  our  duty. 

ABRAHAM  LINCOLN 


H 


IS  heart  was  as  great  as  the  world.  There  was 
no  room  in  it  to  hold  the  memory  of  a  wrong. 

EMERSON 


T  OVE  peace  and  pursue  peace.  Love  mankind, 
^j  and  bring  them  nearer  to  the  Lord.  The  moral 
condud:  of  the  world  depends  on  three  things, — 
truth,  justice,  and  peace. 

HILLEL  (An  Israelite^  43  B.  C.) 


/%  S  happy  dwellers  by  the  sea-side  hear 
_/~\_  In  every  pause,  the  sea's  mysterious  sound, 
The  infinite  murmur,  solemn  and  profound, 
Incessant,  filling  all  the  atmosphere, 
Even  so  I  hear  you,  for  you  do  surround 
My  newly  waking  life,  and  break  for  aye 
About  the  viewless  shores,  till  they  resound 
With  echoes  of  God's  greatness  night  and  day. 

CELIA  THAXTER 

15 

TALK  health.  The  dreary,  never-changing  tale 
Of  mortal  maladies  is  worn  and  stale. 
You  cannot  charm,  or  interest,  or  please, 
By  harping  on  that  minor  chord,  disease. 

ELLA  WHEELER  WILCOX 

16 

THE  aim  in  life  is  what  the  backbone  is  to  the 
body;  without  it  we  are  invertebrate — belong 
to  a  lower  order  of  being — not  yet  man. 

W.  C.  GANNETT 

17 

IT  is  impossible  for  any  one  to  begin  to  learn  what 
he  thinks  that  he  already  knows. 
EPICTETUS 


i8 

WITHIN  my  earthly  temple  there's  a  crowd; 
There  's  one  of  us  that's  humble,  one  that's 
proud; 

There  's  one  that 's  broken-hearted  for  his  sins 
And  one  that  unrepentant  sits  and  grins; 
There  's  one  that  loves  his  neighbor  as  himself, 
And  one  that  cares  for  naught  but  fame  and  pelf. 
From  much  corroding  care  I  should  be  free 
If  I  could  once  determine  which  is  me. 

MARTIN 


19 


I  KNOW  not  where  His  islands  lift 
Their  fronded  palms  in  air; 
I  only  know  I  cannot  drift 
Beyond  His  love  and  care. 

WHITTIER 

20 

THE  present  moment  is  divinely  sent, 
The  present  duty  is  thy  Master's  will. 
Oh  thou  who  longest  for  some  noble  work, 
Do  thou  this  hour  thy  given  task  fulfil, 
And  thou  shalt  find,  tho'  small  at  first  it  seemed, 
It  is  the  work  of  which  thou  oft  hast  dreamed. 


jpebruarp 


N 


21 

O  one  is  useless  in  this  world  who  lightens  the 

burden  of  it  for  another.  ^ 

DICKENS 


L" 


22 

George  Washington,  born  1732 
James  Russell  Lowell,  born  1819 
ABOR  to  keep  alive  in  your  breast  that  little 
spark  of  celestial  fire  called  conscience. 


It  is  important,  likewise,  that  habits  of  thinking  in 
a  free  country  should  inspire  caution  in  those  in- 
trusted with  its  administration. 

WASHINGTON 


N 


23 

EXT  to  the  virtue,  the  fun  in  this  world  is  what 
we  least  can  spare. 


24 

BETWEEN  simple  and  noble  people  there  is 
always  a  quick  intelligence;  they  recognize  at 
sight  and  meet  on  better  ground  than  the  talent  and 
skill  they  may  possess,  namely,  on  simplicity  and  up- 
rightness. EMERSON 


25 

NO  power  can  die  that  ever  wrought  for  Truth; 
Thereby  a  law  of  Nature  it  became. 

LOWELL 

26 

Viftor  Hugo,  born  1802 

COURAGE  for  the  great  sorrows  of  life  and  pa- 
tience for  the  small  ones,  and  then  when  you 
have  accomplished  your  daily  task,  go  to  sleep  in 
peace.  God  is  awake. 

VICTOR  HUGO 

27 

Henry  Wadsworth  Longfellow,  born  1807 

EUT  not  him  that  putteth  his  hand  to  the  plough 
look  backwards; 
Though  the  ploughshare  cut  through  the  flowers  of 

life  to  its  fountains, 
Though  it  pass  o'er  the  graves  of  the  dead  and  the 

hearths  of  the  living, 

It  is  the  will  of  the  Lord;  and  his  mercy  endureth 
forever ! 

LONGFELLOW 


dfebruarp 

28 

srs   v 
wrath,  only  send  it  to  the  other  end  of  the 


^  I  ^HERE   are   answers   which    in   turning    away 


room. 

GEORGE  ELIOT 


'The  earth  seems  a  desolate  mother, — 
Betrayed  like  the  princess  of  old, 

'The  ermine  stripped  from  her  shoulders, 
And  her  bosom  all  naked  and  cold. 

But  a  joy  looks  out  from  her  sadness, 
For  she  feels  with  a  glad  unrest, 

The  throb  of  the  unborn  summer 
Under  her  bare  brown  breast. 

CHARLES  HENRY  WEBB 


JHarth 


T 


I  DISLIKE  extremely  the  passage  in  which  you 
appear  to  consider  the  disregard  of  individuals  as 
a  lofty  condition  of  mind.  My  own  experience  and 
development  deepen  every  day  my  conviction  that 
our  moral  progress  may  be  measured  by  the  degree 
in  which  we  sympathize  with  individual  suffering 

and  individual  joy.  ^  ^ 

J  J  GEORGE  ELIOT 

2 

HERE  is  no  time  so  miserable  but  a  man  may 

be  true.  c 

SHAKESPEARE 

3 

PEOPLE  who  seem  to  enjoy  their  ill  temper, 
have  a  way  of  keeping  it  in  fine  condition  by 
inflicting  privations  on  themselves.  That  was  Mrs. 
Glegg's  way :  she  made  her  tea  weaker  than  usual  this 

morning;  and  declined  butter.          ^  ^ 

GEORGE  ELIOT 


DO  you  know  the  meaning  of  goodness?  I  will 
tell  you.  It  is  first  to  avoid  hurting  any  thing;  and 
then  to  contrive  to  give  as  much  pleasure  as  you  can. 

MARY  WOLLSTONECRAFT 


FOR  my  part  if  I  try  to  characterize  my  friends, 
I  fail  to  do  them  perfect  justice,  of  course;  and 
yet  the  imperfect  result  remains  representative  of 
them,  and  I  can't  get  them  back  again  into  the  un- 
defined and  the  ideal  where  they  belong.  One  ought 
never  to  speak  of  the  faults  of  one's  friends;  it  mu- 
tilates them;  they  can  never  be  the  same  afterwards. 

W.  D.  HOWELLS 


Elizabeth  Barrett  Browning,  born  1806 
I  AM  come  to  think 

That  God  will  have  his  work  done,  as  you  said, 
And  that  we  need  not  be  disturbed  too  much. 

E.  B.  BROWNING 

7 

T  is  easy  finding  reasons  why  other  people  should 
be  patient.  ^  ^ 

CjEORGE  .ELLIOT 

8 

DON'T  look  for  the  flaws  as  you  go  through  life, 
And  even  when  you  find  them 
It  is  wise  and  kind  to  be  somewhat  blind, 
And  look  for  the  virtues  behind  them. 


I 


9 

NOW  Dives  feasted  daily,  and  was  gorgeously 
arrayed, 
Not  at  all  because  he  liked  it,  but  because  'twas  good 

for  trade. 

That  the  people  might  have  calico  he  clothed  him- 
self in  silk, 
And  surfeited  himself  with  cream,  that  they  might 

have  more  milk. 
He  fed  five  hundred  servants,  that  the  poor  might 

not  lack  bread, 
And  had  his  vessels  made  of  gold,  that  they  might 

have  more  lead; 
And  e'en  to  show  his  sympathy  with  the  deserving 

poor, 
He  did  no  useful  work  himself,  that  they  might  do 

the  more. 

10 

THE  language  of  friendship  is  not  words  but 
meanings.  It  is  an  intelligence  above  language. 

THOREAU 

I  I 

A  CONSERVATIVE  is  a  man  who  will  not  look 
at  the  new  moon,  out  of  respect  for  that  ancient 
institution,  the  old  one. 


12 

JUDGE  not,  the  workings  of  his  brain 
And  of  his  heart  thou  canst  not  see; 
What  looks  to  thy  dim  eyes  a  stain, 
In  God's  pure  light  may  only  be 
A  scar  brought  from  some  well-won  field, 
Where  thou  wouldst  only  faint  and  yield. 

The  look,  the  air  that  frets  thy  sight, 

May  be  a  token  that  below, 
The  soul  has  closed  in  deadly  fight 

With  some  infernal  fiery  foe, 
Whose  glance  would  scorch  thy  smiling  grace, 
And  cast  thee  shuddering  on  thy  face. 

ADELAIDE  PROCTER 

13 

WE  too  often  forget  that  we  are  not  what  we  aspire 
to  be;  and  that  the  far  different  thing  that  we 
arey  is  that  alone  by  which  we  are  known. 

14 

KEEP  the  faculty  of  effort  alive  in  you  by  a  little 
gratuitous  exercise  every  day.   Do  every  day 
something  for  no  other  reason  than  that  you  would 
rather  not  do  it.  PROFESSOR  W.  JAMES 


15 

WE  cannot  kindle  when  we  will 
The  fire  that  in  the  soul  resides; 
The  spirit  bloweth  and  is  still, 
In  mystery  the  soul  abides; 
But  deeds  in  hours  of  insight  willed 
May  be  in  hours  of  gloom  fulfilled. 

MATTHEW  ARNOLD 

10 

THE  night  has  a  thousand  eyes, 
And  the  day  but  one, 
Yet  the  light  of  the  bright  world  dies 
With  the  dying  sun. 

The  mind  has  a  thousand  eyes, 

And  the  heart  but  one, 
Yet  the  light  of  a  whole  life  dies 

When  love  is  done.  D   w   BOURDILLON 

17 

PERFECT  rest  is  unimpeded  action. 

18 

NE  spring  wind  unbinds  the  mountain  snow, 
And  comforts  violets  in  their  hermitage. 

BROWNING 


o 


19 


TN  WONTED  circumstances  may  make  us  all 

\^J   rather  unlike  ourselves;  there  are  conditions 

under  which  the  most  majestic  person  is  obliged  to 

sneeze,  and  one's  emotions  are  liable  to  be  acled  on 

in  the  same  incongruous  manner. 

GEORGE  ELIOT 

20 

EFE  like  war  is  a  series  of  mistakes;  and  he  is  not 
the  best  Christian  nor  the  best  general  who  makes 
the  fewest  false  steps.  He  is  the  best  who  wins  the  most 
splendid  victories  by  the  retrieval  of  mistakes. 

F.  W.  ROBERTSON 

21 

TO  avenge  one's  self  is  to  confess  that  one  has 
been  wounded;  but  it  is  not  the  part  of  a  noble 
mind  to  be  wounded  by  an  injury.  A  great  mind,  and 
one  that  is  conscious  of  its  own  worth,  does  not  avenge 
an  injury,  because  it  does  not  feel  it. 

SENECA 

22 

SOCIETY  has  this  good  at  least:  that  it  lessens 
our  conceit  by  teaching  us  our  insignificance  and 
making  us  acquainted  with  our  betters. 

THACKERAY 


23 

COME  now!  cheer  up  an'  have  a  cup  o'  tea! 
Things  ain't  so  hard  's  you  make  'em  out  to  be. 
Be  happy  while  you  can;  time  ain't  so  long 
But  what  it  soon  will  end  for  you  an'  me. 

MARY  YOUNGS 

24 

WHETHER  we  stumble  or  whether  we  fall,  we 
must  only  think  of  rising  again,  and  going  on 
our  course.  FENELON 

25 

OH,  do  not  pray  for  easy  lives.  Pray  to  be  stronger 
men !  Do  not  pray  for  tasks  equal  to  your  powers. 
Pray  for  powers  equal  to  your  tasks. 

PHILLIPS  BROOKS 

26 

hail !  ye  small  sweet  courtesies  of  life,  how 
much  smoother  do  ye  make  the  road  of  it. 

HORACE  WALPOLE 


ALL 

f\m 


WHOEVER  degrades  another  degrades  me, 
And  whatever  is  said  or  done  returns  at  last 

to  me-  WALT  WHITMAN 


28 

THE  Holy  Supper  is  kept,  indeed, 
In  whatso  we  share  with  another's  need, — 
Not  what  we  give,  but  what  we  share, — 
For  the  gift  without  the  giver  is  bare; 
Who  gives  himself  with  his  alms  feeds  three, — 
Himself,  his  hungering  neighbor,  and  me. 

LOWELL 

29 

IT  has  been  well  said  that  no  man  ever  sank  under 
the  burden  of  the  day.  It  is  when  to-morrow's  bur- 
den is  added  to  the  burden  of  to-day,  that  the  weight 
is  more  than  a  man  can  bear. 

GEORGE  MACDONALD 

3° 

EASTER  is  the  time  for  renewal.  Dry  branches 
clothe  themselves  afresh ;  the  bare  earth  becomes 
alive  with  the  upspringing  verdure.  The  significance 
of  all  this  is  accomplishment.  First  the  awakening, 
next  the  effort  of  growth,  then  harvest.  For  each  one 
of  us  such  should  be  the  course  of  life.  Ever  the  new 
birth  of  inspiration,  growth  into  earnest  purpose,  and 
the  fruitage  as  shown  in  exalted  character  and  loving 
service.  ABBY  MORTON  DIAZ 


31 

IT  seems  Very  certain  that  the  world  is  to  grow 
richer  and  better  in  the  future,  however  it  has  been 
in  the  past,  not  by  the  magnificent  achievements  of 
the  highly  gifted  few,  but  by  the  patient  faithfulness 
of  the  one-talented  many. 

PHILLIPS  BROOKS 


'The  grass  grows  bright,  the  boughs  are  swoln  with  blooms 

Like  chrysalids  impatient  for  the  air, 

'The  shining  dorrs  are  busy,  beetles  run 

Along  the  furrows,  ants  make  their  ado; 

Above,  birds  fly  in  merry  flocks,  the  lark 

Soars  up  and  up,  shivering  for  very  joy ; 

Afar  the  ocean  sleeps;  white  fishing-gulls 

Flit  where  the  strand  is  purple  with  its  tribe 

Of  nested  limpets ;  savage  creatures  seek 

Their  loves  in  wood  and  plain — and  God  renews 

His  ancient  rapture.  Thus  He  dwells  in  all, 

From  life's  minute  beginnings,  up  at  last 

To  man. 

BROWNING 


As 


San  Antonine  my  country  is  Rome;  as  a  man  it 
is  the  world. 

MARCUS  AURELIUS  ANTONINUS 


o 


2 

NE  thorn  of  experience  is  worth  a  whole  wilder- 
ness of  warnings.  LOWELL 


3 

Edward  Everett  Ha/e,  born  1822 

GOD  has  placed  men  in  this  world,  not  simply  to 
dig  gold,  or  to  make  clothes,  or  to  print  books, 
but  so  to  do  these  things,  as  to  make  themselves  more 
faithful,  hopeful,  and  loving. 

EDWARD  EVERETT  HALE 

4    .... 

HE  who  follows  truth  carries  his  star  in  his  brain. 

ALGER 


WHEN  the  Golden  Rule  is  employed  in  govern- 
mental matters,  then,  and  not  till  then,  the  fu- 
ture of  nations  will  be  sure.  v 

KOSSUTH 


T 


O  have  what  we  want  is  riches;  to  be  able  to  do 

without  is  power.         ^  A/r 

GEORGE  MACDONALD 


7 

William  Wordsworth^  born  1770 

THOUGH  nothing  can  bring  back  the  hour 
Of  splendor  in  the  grass,  of  glory  in  the  flower, 
We  will  grieve  not,  rather  find 
Strength  in  what  remains  behind; 
In  the  primal  sympathy 
Which  having  been  must  ever  be, 
In  the  soothing  thoughts  that  spring 
Out  of  human  suffering, 
In  the  faith  that  looks  through  death, 
In  years  that  bring  the  philosophic  mind. 

8 

FOR  every  false  word  and  unrighteous  deed,  for 
cruelty  and  oppression,  for  lust  and  vanity,  the 
price  has  to  be  paid  at  last.  P 

9 

THERE  is  no  good  way  to  do  a  bad  deed. 


E 


10 

STEEM  it  a  great  part  of  a  good  education  to 
be  able  to  bear  with  the  want  of  it  in  others. 
PYTHAGORAS  (580  B.  C) 


I  I 

IT  is  singular  how  impatient  men  are  with  over- 
praise of  others,  and  how  patient  with  overpraise 
of  themselves.  Yet  the  one  cannot  hurt  them  and  the 

other  may  be  their  ruin. 

LOWELL 

12 

SELF-SACRIFICE  is  well  enough,but  don't  give 
yourself  to  be  melted  over  for  the  tallow  trade. 

GEORGE  ELIOT 


BUT  now  I  pray  for  Love; 
Deep  love  to  God  and  man; 
A  living  love,  that  will  not  fail 
However  dark  His  plan. 

And  Light  and  Strength  and  Faith 

Are  opening  everywhere; 
God  only  waited  for  me  till 

I  prayed  the  larger  prayer. 
5     *    y 


r 

EDNAH  D.  CHENEY 


HE  who  has  a  thousand  friends  has  not  a  friend 
to  spare, 
And  he  who  has  one  enemy  will  meet  him  everywhere. 

15 

IF  you  wish  to  be  miserable  you  must  think  about 
yourself.  ~  v 

3  CHARLES  KINGSLEY 

16 

THERE  is  a  "my  secret"  but  never  an  "our  secret." 


T 

K 


'7 

HE  devil  tempts  us  not — 'tis  we  tempt  him, 
beckoning  his  skill  with  opportunity. 

GEORGE  ELIOT 

18 

INDNESS  is  not  thrown  away — even  on  mem- 
bers of  one's  own  family. 


19 

THE  length  to  which  a  man's  memory  can  go,  in 
letting  drop  associations  that  are  vital  to  another, 
can  hardly  find  a  limit.  GEQRGE 


20 

AsfY  coward  can  fight  a  battle  when  he  is  sure  of 
winning ;  but  give  me  the  man  who  has  the  pluck 
to  fight  when  he  is  sure  of  losing. 


H 


21 

Charlotte  Bronte,  born  1 8 1 6 
APPI  NESS  quite  unshared  can  scarcely  be  called 
happiness;  it  has  no  taste. 

CHARLOTTE  BRONTE 


22 

NOT  to  correct  one's  fault  is  to  make  new  ones. 

CONFUCIUS 


William  Shakespeare,  born  1564 
"He  was  not  for  an  age  but  for  all  time" 

SO  on  the  tip  of  his  subduing  tongue 
All  kind  oif  arguments  and  question  deep, 
All  replication  prompt  and  reason  strong, 
For  his  advantage  still  did  wake  and  sleep  : 
To  make  the  weeper  laugh,  the  laugher  weep, 
He  had  the  dialed:  and  different  skill, 
Catching  all  passions  in  his  craft  of  will. 

SHAKESPEARE 


24 

WHAT  makes  life  dreary  is  the  want  of  motive. 

GEORGE  ELIOT 

25 

OGLAD  am  I  that  I  was  born! 
For  who  is  sad  when  flaming  morn 
Bursts  forth,  or  when  the  mighty  night 
Carries  the  soul  from  height  to  height. 

For  joy  attunes  all  beating  things, 
With  me  each  rhythmic  atom  sings 
From  glow  to  gloom,  from  murk  till  morn, 
O  glad  am  I  that  I  was  born. 

HARRIET  PRESCOTT  SPOFFORD 

26 

Alice  Gary,  born  1820 

NO  light  that  through  the  ages  shines 
To  worthless  work  belongs. 
Men  dig  in  thoughts  as  they  dig  in  mines 

For  the  jewels  of  their  songs.         ALIC£  CARY 

27  • 

O  part  of  life's  education  is  more  useful,  if  turned 

to  proper  account,  than  the  discipline  of  failure. 


N 


28 

OH  when  I  am  safe  in  my  sylvan  home 
I  tread  on  the  pride  of  Greece  and  Rome. 
And  when  I  am  stretched  beneath  the  pines, 
Where  the  evening  star  so  holy  shines, 
I  laugh  at  the  love  and  the  pride  of  man, 
At  the  sophists' schools  and  the  learned  clan, 
For  what  are  they  all  in  their  high  conceit, 
When  man  in  the  bush  with  God  may  meet. 

EMERSON 


w 


RECONCILIATION 

ORD  over  all,  beautiful  as  the  sky, 
Beautiful  that  war  and  all  its  deeds  of  carnage 
must  in  time  be  utterly  lost. 

WALT  WHITMAN 


3° 

^  I  ^HE  beautiful  is  the  Essence  of  Life.  It  is  also 
JL  the  grand  symphony  of  the  world  which  can  be 
interpreted  only  by  those  who  possess  a  profound 
knowledge  of  its  laws,  and  of  the  relation  between 
discords  and  harmonies. 


Now  the  bright  Morning-star,  day's  harbinger, 
Comes  dancing  from  the  east,  and  leads  with  her 
'The  flowery  May,  who  from  her  green  lap  throws 
tfhe  yellow  cowslip,  and  the  pale  primrose. 
Hail,  bounteous  May,  thou  dost  inspire 
Mirth,  and  youth,  and  warm  desire; 
Woods,  and  groves  are  of  thy  dressing, 
Hill,  and  dale  doth  boast  thy  blessing. 
'Thus  we  salute  thee  with  our  early  song, 
And  welcome  thee,  and  wish  thee  long. 

MILTON 


E,T  us  put  flowers  into  the  hands  of  our  friends 
instead  of  placing  them  upon  their  coffins. 


FOR  here  we  are,  and  if  we  will  but  tarry  a  little, 
we  shall  come  to  learn  that  here  is  best.  See  to 
it  only  that  thyself  art  here,  and  art  and  nature,  hope 
and  faith,  angels  and  the  Supreme  Being  shall  not  be 
absent  from  the  chamber  where  thou  sittest. 

3 

IT  must  not  be  said  to  man,  Enjoy ;  life  is  the  right 
to  happiness:  but  rather,  Work;  life  is  a  duty;  do 
good  without  thinking  of  the  consequences  to  your- 
self; he  must  not  be  taught,  Go  each  according  to  his 
wants,  or  go  each  according  to  his  passions,  but  rather, 
Go  each  according  to  his  Love.  ^r 


TH  E  higher  the  state  of  civilization,  the  more  com- 
pletely do  the  actions  of  one  member  of  the  social 
body  influence  all  the  rest,  and  the  less  possible  is  it  for 
any  one  man  to  do  a  wrong  thing  without  interfering 
more  or  less  with  the  freedom  of  all  his  fellow-citizens. 

HUXLEY 


THERE  is  this  good  thing  about  women:  they 
share  your  riches  just  as  cheerfully  as  they  do 

your  poverty. 

CHARLES  DUDLEY  WARNER 


NOT  suppression,  but  expression,  is  the  true  life. 

PHILLIPS  BROOKS 

7 

Robert  Browning,  born  1812 

ONE  who  never  turned  his  back  but  marched 
breast  forward, 

Never  doubted  clouds  would  break, 
Never  dreamed,  though  right  were  worsted,  wrong 

would  triumph, 
Held  we  fall  to  rise,  are  baffled  to  fight  better, 

Sleep  to  wake.  0 

BROWNING 

8 

THIS  is  the  law  of  benefits  between  men:  the  one 
ought  to  forget  at  once  what  he  has  given,  and 
the  other  ought  never  to  forget  what  he  has  received. 

SENECA 


THERE  are  many  cases  in  life  where  to  convince, 
even  of  error,  is  a  breach  of  the  charity  that  we 
owe  to  one  another. 

IO 

THE  world  ever  loves  to  charge  those  as  mad 
who,  in  devotion  to  a  great  cause,  exceed  its  cold 
standard  of  moderation.  Singular,  that  excess  in  virtue 
should  incur  this  reproach,  while  excess  in  vice  is  held 
but  as  a  weakness  of  our  nature. 

WILLIAM  WARE 

I  I 

HE  only  is  advancing  in  life, whose  heart  is  get- 
ting softer,  whose  blood  warmer,  whose  brain 
quicker,  whose  spirit  is  entering  into  living  peace. 

RUSKIN 

12 

WE  'LL  one  another  treat  like  gods, 
And  all  the  faith  we  have 
In  virtue  and  in  truth,  bestow 
On  either,  and  suspicion  leave 

To  gods  below. 

THOREAU 


13 

THE  truth  is  that  to  work  insatiably,  requires 
much  less  mind  than  to  work  judiciously,  and 
less  courage  than  to  refuse  work  that  cannot  be  done 
honestly.  HELPS 

14 

THE  threads  our  hands  in  blindness  spin 
No  self-determined  plan  weaves  in; 
The  shuttle  of  the  unseen  powers 
Works  out  a  pattern  not  as  ours. 

WHITTIER 

15 

A^L  the  doors  that  lead  inward  to  the  secret  place 
of  the  Most  High,  are  doors  outward, — out  of 
self — out  of  smallness — out  of  wrong. 

MACDONALD 

16 

JOG  on,  jog  on,  the  foot-path  way, 
And  merrily  hent  the  stile-a: 
A  merry  heart  goes  all  the  day, 
Your  sad  tires  in  a  mile-a. 

SHAKESPEARE 


17 

EFE  is  kind  to  us  not  as  it  brings  us  joys  but  as 
it  moulds  our  human  nature  into  the  likeness  of 
the  divine. 

18 

JUSTICE  is  the  fundamental  virtue  of  Social  Life. 

DAVIDSON 


FORTUNES  fled  I  mourn,  but  more 
Time  that  's  thrown  away  ; 
Tho'  the  King  all  else  restore, 
Who  gives  back  the  Day  ? 


w 


20 

HEN  we  cease  to  listen  to  the  cries  of  self- 
seeking  and  self-care,  then  the  voice  that  was 
there  all  the  time  enters  into  our  ears. 

21 

IF  we  only  did  half  the  kind  things  we  think  of 
doing,  or  even  half  we  talk  of,  we  might  seem  to 
other  people  more  as  we  do  to  ourselves. 


W 


22 

E  scatter  seeds  with  careless  hand, 
And  dream  we  ne'er  shall  see  them  more; 
But  for  a  thousand  years 

Their  fruit  appears, 
In  weeds  that  mar  the  land, 
—  Or  healthful  store. 

SIR  PHILIP  SIDNEY 


ALL 

/\m 


Margaret  Fuller^  born  1810 
the  good  I  have  ever  done  has  been  by  call 
ing  on  every  nature  for  its  highest. 

MARGARET  FULLER  OSSOLI 


STRIVE  manfully;  habit  is  overcome  by  habit. 

THOMAS  A  KEMPIS 


Ralph  Waldo  Emerson,  born  1803 

EVERY  man  takes  care  that  his  neighbor  shall  not 
cheat  him.  But  a  day  comes  when  he  begins  to 
care  that  he  do  not  cheat  his  neighbor.  Then  all  goes 
well.  He  has  changed  his  market  cart  into  a  chariot  of 

the  sun-  EMERSON 


26 

A<JD  none  but  the  Master  shall  praise  us, 
And  none  but  the  Master  shall  blame; 
And  no  one  shall  work  for  money, 
And  no  one  shall  work  for  fame; 
But  all  for  the  joy  of  the  working, 

And  each,  in  his  separate  star, 
Shall  paint  the  thing  as  he  sees  it, 
For  the  God  of  things  as  they  are. 

RUDYARD  KIPLING 


27 


Julia  Ward  Howe,  born  1819 

I  BELIEVE  freedom  to  be  the  first  condition  of 
moral  life.  It  needs,  however,  to  be  accompanied 
by  much  instruction.  It  is  like  money  in  this,  that  in 
order  to  profit  by  it  one  must  know  how  to  use  it 
properly.  JULIA  WARD  HowE 

28 

AtfD  God  is  within  and  around  me, 
All  good  is  forever  mine; 
To  all  who  seek  it  is  given, 
And  it  conies  by  a  law  divine. 

ANCIENT  HINDU 


29 

MY  brother  Saxons  have,  as  is  well  known,  a  ter- 
rible way  with  them  of  wanting  to  improve 
everything  but  themselves  off  the  face  of  the  earth. 
I  have  no  such  passion  for  finding  nothing  but  my- 
self everywhere.  I  like  variety  to  exist  and  to  show 
itself  to  me.  MATTHEW  ARNOLD 

3° 

THERE  is  no  end  to  the  sky, 
And  the  stars  are  everywhere, 
And  time  is  eternity, 

And  the  here  is  over  there; 
For  the  common  deeds  of  the  common  day 
Are  ringing  bells  in  the  far  away. 

31 

Walt  Whitman^  born  1819 

IN  this  broad  earth  of  ours, 
Amid  the  measureless  grossness  and  the  slag, 
Enclosed  and  safe  within  its  central  heart, 
Nestles  the  seed  perfection. 

I  do  not  call  one  greater  and  one  smaller, 
That  which  fills  its  period  and  place  is  equal  to  any. 

WALT  WHITMAN 


'Nuff '  sed,  Junes  bridesman,  poet  o'  the  year ', 
Gladness  on  wings,  the  bobolink,  is  here; 
Half-hid  in  tip-top  apple-blooms  he  swings, 
Or  climbs  aginst  the  breeze  with  quiverin'  wings, 
Or,  givin   way  to  '/  in  a  mock  despair, 
Runs  down,  a  brook  o"  laughter,  thru  the  air. 

LOWELL 


O  BELOVED  Pan  and  all  ye  other  gods  of  this 
place,  grant  me  to  be  beautiful  in  the  inner  man, 
and  that  whatever  outward  things  I  have  may  be  at 
peace  with  those  within.  May  I  deem  the  wise  man 
rich,  and  may  I  have  such  a  portion  of  gold  as  none 
but  a  prudent  man  can  either  bear  or  employ. 

THE  PRAYER  OF  SOCRATES 


w 


HAT  wealth  it  is  to  have  such  friends  that  we 
cannot  think  of  them  without  elevation. 

THOREAU 


D 


3 


O  not  affront  the  morning's  freshness  with  a  cata- 
logue of  ailments.  EMERSON 


4 

SHOW  us,  dear  June,  that  not  in  vain 
Our  lives  need  be! 
Show  us  that  we 

Must  also  wait  through  frost  and  rain 
To  bloom  like  thee. 

LUCY  LARCOM 


5 

IT  is  to  him  who  is  most  active,  always  feeling,  think- 
ing, working,  caring  for  people  and  for  things,  that 
life  seems  short. 

PHILLIPS  BROOKS 


WHEN  science  is  learned  in  love,  and  its  powers 
are  wielded  by  love,  they  will  appear  the  sup- 
plement and  continuation  of  the  material  creation. 

EMERSON 

7 

IT  is  no  great  matter  to  live  lovingly  with  good- 
natured,  humble,  and  meek  persons;  but  he  who 
can  do  so  with  froward,  wilful,  ignorant,  peevish,  and 
perverse  hath  true  charity. 

THOMAS  A  KEMPIS 

8 

NICE  distinctions  are  troublesome;  it  is  much 
easier  to  make  up  your  mind  that  your  neigh- 
bor is  good-for-nothing  than  to  enter  into  all  the  cir- 
cumstances which  would  oblige  you  to  modify  that 
opinion. 

GEORGE  ELIOT 


3unt 


W 


E  have  nothing  to  enjoy  until  we  have  some- 
thing to  impart. 

IO 

THERE  is  a  difference  between  trying  to  please 
and  giving  pleasure.  Give  pleasure;  lose  no  chance 
of  giving  pleasure,  for  that  is  the  ceaseless  triumph  of 

a  truly  loving  spirit.  ^ 

J  DRUMMOND 


o 


I  I 

LEAVE  to  God  at  sight  of  sin  incensed  to  be ! 
Sinner,  if  thou  art  grieved,  that  is  enough  for 

thee.  rr- 

1  RENCH 


H 


12 

ABIT  is  a  cable;  we  weave  a  thread  of  it  every 
day,  and  at  last  we  cannot  break  it. 

HORACE  MANN 


FTER-WITS  are  dearly  bought, 
Let  thy  fore-wit  guide  thy  thought. 

SOUTHWELL 


Stnu 


Harriet  Beecher  Stowey  born  1811 

HARRIET  BEECHER  STOWE 

SHE  told  the  story,  and  the  whole  world  wept 
At  wrongs  and  cruelties  it  had  not  known 
But  for  this  fearless  woman's  voice  alone. 
She  spoke  to  consciences  that  long  had  slept: 
Her  message,  Freedom's  clear  reveille,  swept 
From  heedless  hovel  to  complacent  throne. 
Command  and  prophecy  were  in  the  tone, 
And  from  its  sheath  the  sword  of  justice  leapt. 
Around  two  peoples  swelled  a  fiery  wave, 
But  both  came  forth  transfigured  from  the  flame. 
Blest  be  the  hand  that  dared  be  strong  to  save, 
And  blest  be  she  who  in  our  weakness  came  — 
Prophet  and  priestess!  At  one  stroke  she  gave 
A  race  to  freedom  and  herself  to  fame. 

PAUL  LAURENCE  DUNBAR 


LOVE  finds  the  need  it  fills. 

GEORGE  ELIOT 


E^T 
t 


16 

us  make  use  of  our  friends  by  being  of  use  to 
them. 


June 


H 

M 


17 

APPINESS  is  a  wayside  flower  that  grows  along 
the  highway  of  usefulness.  RICHTER 

18 

EN  rise  the  higher  as  their  task  is  high, 
The  task  being  well  achieved. 

GEORGE  ELIOT 


WHILE  saying  what  you  would  do  in  case  of 
another,  forget  not  what  you  should  do  while 

in  your  own.  T         ^ 

]  IVAN  PANIN 

20 

ETTER  attempt  much  and  fail  than  attempt 
nothing  and  succeed. 


B 


T 
T 


21 

HE  man  who  does  right  need  n't  worry  if  some- 
body catches  him  at  it. 

22 

HERE  can  be  no  concert  in  two,  where  there  is 

no  concert  in  one.  T? 

EMERSON 


3tme 


IF  my  way  of  thinking  and  acting  is  wrong,  others 
will  correct  it  by  a  better  way.  But  for  myself,  I 
must  be  true  to  the  light  that  shines  for  me. 

EMERSON 

24 

A  POOR  man  with  a  single  handful  of  flowers 
heaped  the  alms  bowl  of  Buddha,  which  the 
rich  could  not  fill  with  ten  thousand  bushels. 

CHINESE 

25 

'^  I  ^  IS  the  time  o'the  year  the  marsh  is  full  of  sound, 
X  And  good  and  glorious  it  is  to  smell  the  living 
ground. 

The  crimson-headed  catkin  shakes  above  the  pasture- 
bars, 

The  daisy  takes  the  middle  field,  and  spangles  it  with 
stars, 

And  down  the  bank  into  the  lane  the  primroses  do 
crowd, 

All  colored  like  the  twilight  moon,  and  spreading  like 
a  cloud! 

LOUISE  IMOGEN  GUINEY 


Utuu 


26 

ELT  me  never  fall  into  the  vulgar  error  of  dream- 
ing that  I  am  persecuted  whenever  I  am  criti- 
cised. 

EMERSON 

27 

Celia  Fhaxter,  born  1835 

REFRESHED  and  glad  I  feel  the  full  flood-tide 
Till  every  inlet  of  my  waiting  soul, 
Long-striving,  eager  hope  beyond  control, 
For  health  and  strength  at  last  is  satisfied. 
And  you  exalt  me  like  the  sounding  sea 
With  ceaseless  whispers  of  eternity. 

CELIA  THAXTER 


T 

N 


28 

IS  easy  to  make  friends  among  angels  when  you 
dwell  high. 

BASFORD 

29 

OT  the  cry,  but  the  flight  of  the  wild  duck,  leads 
the  flock  to  fly  and  follow. 

CHINESE  PROVERB 


3° 

DAY  by  day 

New  pollen  on  the  lily-petal  grows, 
And  still  more  labyrinthine  buds  the  rose. 

BROWNING 


'To  one  who  has  been  long  in  city  pent, 
tcTis  very  sweet  to  look  into  the  fair 
And  open  face  of  heaven, — to  breathe  a  prayer 
Full  in  the  smile  of  the  blue  firmament. 
Who  is  more  happy,  when,  with  heart's  content, 
Fatigued  he  sinks  into  some  pleasant  lair 
Of  wavy  grass,  and  reads  a  debonair 
And  gentle  tale  of  love  and  languishment? 
Returning  home  at  evening,  with  an  ear 
Catching  the  notes  of  Philomel, — an  eye 
Watching  the  sailing  cloudlet's  bright  career, 
He  mourns  that  day  so  soon  has  glided  by: 
E'en  like  the  passage  of  an  angel's  tear 
That  falls  through  the  clear  ether  silently. 

KEATS 


E 


DUCATION  is  a  stronger  protection  to  govern- 
ment than  a  standing  army. 

J  VOLNEY 


ONE  must  be  poor  to  know  the  luxury  of  giving. 

GEORGE  ELIOT 

3 

A  LITTLE  avoided,  a  little  surrendered,  a  little 
overcome;  and  lo!  the  rough  and  jagged  edges 
slipped  into  their  places,  and  life  became  an  exquisite 
mosaic. 

4 

Nathaniel  Hawthorne,  born  1 804 

THE  GREATNESS  OF  A  NATION 

WHEN  the  long  account  is  madeup,  it  will  not  be 
the  number  of  our  square  miles,  or  the  amount 
of  our  steel  production,  of  the  piled-up  wealth  of  our 
millionaires,  that  will  determine  whether  American 
Government  has  been  a  success  or  a  failure.  That  ques- 
tion will  turn  upon  the  fibre  of  our  citizenship,  upon 
the  standards  of  our  public  life,  upon  the  kind  of  men 
the  people  shall  have  accepted  as  their  fitting  leaders. 

BALTIMORE  NEWS 


5 

RECALL  to  thy  mind  this  conclusion,  that  rational 
animals  exist  for  one  another,  and  that  to  endure 

is  a  part  of  justice. 

J  MARCUS  AURELIUS 


A  COLORED  man  in  Alabama,  one  hot  day  in 
J~\^  July,  while  he  was  at  work  in  a  cotton-field, 
suddenly  stopped,  and,  looking  toward  the  skies, 
said,  "  O  Lawd,  de  cotton  am  so  grassy,  de  work  am 
so  hard,  and  the  sun  am  so  hot,  dat  I  b'lieve  dis  darky 

am  called  to  preach." 

OUTLOOK 

7 

ACCEPT  no  man  for  his  fine  talk,  reject  no  man 
for  his  old  clothes;  stand  him  out  in  the  sun- 
light and  average  him.  You'll  be  sartain  to  find  some- 
thin'  good. 

8 

WHATE'ER  thou  lovest,  man,  that  too  become 
thou  must; 

God  if  thou  lovest  God;  dust  if  thou  lovest  dust. 

THE  CHERUBIC  PILGRIM 


I  CONCEIVE  the  state  of  the  blessed  to  be  a  total 
forgetfulness  or  absence  of  self,  and  to  consist  in 
beholding  the  good  and  the  happiness  of  others,  so 
that  every  individual  will  enjoy  the  whole  happiness 
of  heaven. 

REV.  JOHN  CLOWES 

10 

WE  have  careful  thoughts  for  the  stranger, 
And  smiles  for  the  sometime  guest, 
But  oft  for  "our  own" 
The  bitter  tone, 
Though  we  love  "our  own"  the  best. 

MARGARET  E.  SANGSTER 

I  I 

MUCH  madness  is  divinest  sense 
To  a  discerning  eye; 
Much  sense  the  starkest  madness. 
'Tis  the  majority 
In  this,  as  all,  prevails. 
Assent,  and  you  are  sane; 
Demur, — you're  straightway  dangerous, 
And  handled  with  a  chain. 

EMILY  DICKINSON 


Still? 


12 

Henry  David  1'horeau^  born  1817 

THERE'S  nothing  in  the  world  I  know 
That  can  escape  from  love, 
For  every  depth  it  goes  below, 

And  every  height  above. 
It  waits  as  waits  the  sky, 
Until  the  clouds  go  by, 
Yet  shines  serenely  on  with  an  eternal  day, 
Alike  when  they  are  gone  or  when  they  stay. 

THOREAU 

13 

HOWEVER,  we  must  put  up  with  our  contem 
poraries,  since  we  can  neither  live  with  our  an 
cestors  nor  our  posterity. 

GEORGE  ELIOT 


ONE  must  perfecl  his  life  to  a  ripe  fruit. 

FROEBEL 


T 


15 

HE  greatest  gift  a  hero  leaves  his  race  is  to  have 
been  a  hero. 

GEORGE  ELIOT 


3ulj? 


1  6 

HAPPINESS  pursued  is  never  overtaken,  be- 
cause, little  as  we  are,  God's  image  makes  us  so 
large  that  we  cannot  live  within  ourselves,  nor  even 
for  ourselves  and  be  satisfied. 

CABLE 


ON  the  whole,  and  in  the  vast  majority  of  cases, 
the  action  by  which  we  can  do  the  best  for  future 
ages  is  of  the  sort  which  has  a  certain  beneficence  and 
grace  for  contemporaries. 

GEORGE  ELIOT 

18 

IMMEDIATELY  relinquish  any  advantage  that 
has  been  gained  without  equity. 

VEDA  (Hindu) 

19 

WHATEVER  you  would  make  habitual  practise  it. 

EPICTETUS 


I 


o 


20 

NE  conquers  a  bad  habit  more  easily  to-day  than 

to-morrow. 

CONFUCIUS 


3ul|> 


21 

MORALS  rule  the  world,  but  at  short  distances 
the  senses  are  despotic. 

EMERSON 

22 

WHEN  all  our  hopes  are  gone 
'T  is  well  our  hands  must  still  keep  toiling  on 

For  others'  sake; 

For  strength  to  bear  is  found  in  duty  done, 
And  he  is  blest  indeed  who  learns  to  make 
The  joy  of  others  cure  his  own  heart-ache. 

MARIA  UPHAM  DRAKE 

23 

MANNERS  are  what  vex  or  soothe,  corrupt  or 
purify,  exalt  or  debase,  barbarize  or  refine  us, 
by  a  constant,  steady,  uniform,  insensible  operation, 
like  that  of  the  air  we  breathe. 

BURKE 

24 

MEN  imagine  that  they  communicate  their  virtue 
or  vice  only  by  overt  actions,  and  do  not  see 
that  virtue  or  vice  emit  a  breath  every  moment. 

EMERSON 


B 


E  not  careless  in  deeds,  nor  confused  in  words, 
nor  rambling  in  thought. 

MARCUS  AURELIUS 

26 

HE  who  wishes  to  secure  the  good  of  others  has 
already  secured  his  own.   .   .   .   One  forgives 
everything  to  him  who  forgives  himself  nothing. 

CHINESE  PROVERBS 

27 

IN  vain  we  call  old  notions  fudge, 
And  bend  our  conscience  to  our  dealing; 
The  Ten  Commandments  will  not  budge, 
And  stealing  will  continue  stealing. 

LOWELL 

28 

OPEECH  is  often  barren;  but  silence  also  does  not 
necessarily  brood  over  a  full  nest. 

GEORGE  ELIOT 


I 


29 

F  it  is  not  seemly,  do  it  not  j  if  it  is  not  true,  speak 
lt:  not*  MARCUS  AURELIUS 


3° 

OVE  took  up  the  harp  of  Life,  and  smote  on  all 
y    the  chords  with  might; 
Smote  the  chord  of  Self,  that  trembling  passed  in  music 
out  of  sight. 

TENNYSON 

31 

IRST  say  to  yourself  what  you  would  be;  and 
then  do  what  you  have  to  do. 

EPICTETUS 


August 

Green  little  vaulter  in  the  sunny  grass, 

Catching  your  heart  up  at  the  feel  of  June: 

Sole  voice  that  Js  heard  amidst  the  lazy  noon, 

When  even  the  bees  lag  at  the  summoning  brass, 

And  you,  warm  little  housekeeper,  who  class 

With  those  who  think  the  candles  come  too  soon, 

Loving  the  fire,  and  with  your  tricksome  tune 

Nick  the  glad  silent  moments  as  they  pass; 

O  sweet  and  tiny  cousins,  that  belong, 

One  to  the  fields,  the  other  to  the  hearth^ 

Both  have  your  sunshine;  both,  though  small,  are  strong, 

At  your  clear  hearts :  and  both  seem  given  to  earth 

1*0  ring  in  thoughtful  ears  this  natural  song — 

In  doors  and  out,  summer  and  winter,  Mirth. 

To  the  Grasshopper  and  the  Cricket 
LEIGH  HUNT 


august 


E 


A 
T 


I 

Maria  Mitchell,  born  1818 
VERY  formula  which  expresses  a  law  of  nature 
is  a  hymn  of  praise  to  God. 

MARIA  MITCHELL 

2 

CRANK  is  one  who  insists  on  trying  to  con- 
vince me,  instead  of  letting  me  convince  him. 


3 

HERE  is  something  better  than  getting  on  in 
the  world — that  is,  getting  above  the  world. 


WHAT  a  battle  a  man  must  fight  everywhere, 
to  maintain  his  standing  army  of  thoughts,  and 
march  with  them  in  orderly  array  through  the  always 
hostile  country.  How  many  enemies  there  are  to  sane 

thinking.  ^ 

I  HOREAU 

5 

A  TRUST  is  a  large  body  of  capitalists,  wholly 
surrounded  by  water.        THOMAS  B.  REED 


Alfred  Tennyson^  born  1809 
.  .  .  AH  !  when  shall  all  men's  good 
Be  each  man's  rule,  and  universal  Peace 
Lie  like  a  shaft  of  light  across  the  land? 

TENNYSON 

7 

WHAT  I  kept,  I  lost. 
What  I  spent,  I  had. 
What  I  gave,  I  have. 

8 


I 


T  is  right  to  be  contented  with  what  we  have,  but 
not  with  what  we  are. 


THERE  is  a  sort  of  subjection  which  is  the  pe- 
culiar heritage  of  largeness  and  of  love ;  and 
strength  is  often  only  another  name  for  willing  bon- 
dage to  irremediable  weakness. 

GEORGE  ELIOT 

IO 

HE  path  of  a  good  woman  is  strewn  with  flowers, 
but  they  rise  behind  her  steps — not  before  them. 


T 


1 1 

THOUGH  a  woman  tempted  man  to  eat,  I  have 
never  heard  that  Eve  had  anything  to  do  with 
his  drinking;  he  took  to  that,  of  his  own  notion. 

HOLMES 


I 


12 

T  seems  to  be  difficult  for  any  one  to  take  in  the 
idea  that  two  truths  cannot  conflict. 

MARIA  MITCHELL 


T 


13 

Lucy  Stone,  born  1818 
HE  spirit  of  her  life-work  is  shown  in  her  last 
words  to  her  daughter. "  Make  the  world  better." 


THERE  can  be  little  doubt  that  in  respect  of  jus- 
tice and  kindness,  the  advance  of  civilized  man 
has  been  less  marked,  than  in  respect  of  quick-witted- 
ness.  T          ^ 

JOHN  .bisKE 

15 

THERE  is  no  beautifier  like  the  wish  to  scatter 
joy  and  not  pain  around  us. 


August 

16 


THE  highest  compact  we  can  make  with  our  fel 
lows  is,  Let  there  be  truth  between  us  two,  for 
evermore.  EMERSON 


HE  spent  his  health  to  get  his  wealth, 
And  then  with  might  and  main, 
He  turned  about  and  spent  his  wealth, 
To  get  his  health  again. 

18 

THE  man  who  is  determined  to  keep  others  fast 
and  firm,  must  have  one  end  of  the  bond  about 
his  own  breast  —  sleeping  or  waking.         j 


VIRTUE  is  a  sort  of  health  and  beauty  and  good 
habit,  of  the  soul,  and  vice  is  its  disease,  deform- 
ity and  infirmity.  PLATO 

20 

THERE  are  those  who  can  give  more  pleasure 
in  a  cordial  hand-shake,  than  others  can  give  in 
a  learned  talk  about  love  and  good  cheer. 


August 


21 

IT  is  evident  that  the  part  of  the  soul  by  which  we 
learn,  is  wholly  intent  to  know  the  truth;  and  as 
to  wealth  and  glory,  it  cares  for  these  least  of  all. 

PLATO 

22 

HE  lost  the  game,  no  matter  for  that, 
He  kept  his  temper,  and  swung  his  hat 
To  cheer  the  winner;  a  better  way 
Than  to  lose  his  temper  and  win  the  day. 

23 

MY  duty  is  what  no  one  else  can  do  for  me.  An- 
other may  do  my  task  better  than  I,  but  not 

my  duty.  JOSIAH  ROYCE 

24 

SINCE  trifles  make  the  sum  of  human  things, 
And  half  our  miseries  from  our  foibles  springs, 
O  let  the  ungentle  spirit  learn  from  hence, 
A  small  unkindness  is  a  great  offence. 

25 

A_,L  good  conversation,  manners  and  action,  come 
from  a  spontaneity  which  forgets  usages  and 
makes  the  moment  great.  EMERSON 


R 


26 

E  AD  the  great  books,  and  let  the  little  ones  take 
care  of  themselves.  DEAN  STANLEY 


w 


HO  has  no  inward  beauty,  none  perceives, 
Though  all  around  is  beautiful. 

RICHARD  HENRY  DANA 


28 

Leo  'To/sfoi,  born  1828 

THE  sole  meaning  of  life  is  to  serve  humanity  by 
contributing  to  the  Kingdom  of  God,  which  can 
be  done  only  by  the  recognition  of  the  worth  of  every 
man.  TOLSTOI 

29 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  born  1809 

BUILD  thee  more  stately  mansions,  O  my  soul, 
As  the  swift  seasons  roll! 
Leave  thy  low-vaulted  past! 
Let  each  new  temple,  nobler  than  the  last, 
Shut  thee  from  heaven  with  a  dome  more  vast, 

Till  thou  at  length  art  free, 

Leaving  thine  outgrown  shell  by  life's  unresting  sea. 

HOLMES 


3° 

COLD  words  freeze  people,  and  hot  words  scorch 
them,  and  bitter  words  make  them  bitter,  and 
wrathful  words  make  them  wrathful.  Kind  words  make 
people  good-natured.  Though  they  do  not  cost  much, 
yet  they  accomplish  much. 

PASCAL 

31      ... 

TO  seek  truth  for  the  sake  of  its  service  in  uses, 
beauty  for  the  joy  of  its  charms,  and  goodness 
for  the  love  of  its  divinity,  are  the  ends  of  all  inward 
culture. 

W.  ALGER 


September 

O  Earth  !  thou  hast  not  any  wind  that  blows 

Which  is  not  music ;  every  weed  of  thine 

Pressed  rightly  flows  in  aromatic  wine ; 

And  every  humble  hedgerow  flower  that  grows, 

And  every  little  brown  bird  that  doth  sing, 

Hath  something  greater  than  itself,  and  bears 

A  living  Word  to  every  living  thing, 

Albeit  it  hold  the  message  unawares. 

All  shapes  and  sounds  have  something  which  is  not 

Of  them :  a  Spirit  broods  amid  the  grass ; 

Vague  outlines  of  the  Everlasting  Thought 

Lie  in  the  melting  shadows  as  they  pass; 

'The  touch  of  an  Eternal  Presence  thrills 

The  fringes  of  the  sunsets  and  the  hills. 

RICHARD  REALF 


eptember 


NEVER  fear  to  bring  the  sublimest  motive  to  the 
smallest  duty,  and  the  most  infinite  comfort  to 
the  smallest  trouble. 

PHILLIPS  BROOKS 

2 

NOWHERE  do  we  need  toleration  so  much  as 
with  the  intolerant. 

IVAN  PANIN 

3 

WHENEVER  men  arrive  at  the  knowledge  of 
the  fact  that  what  one  man  gains  at  another's 
cost  or  loss  is  never  a  real  gain,  and  that  the  same 
thing  is  true  of  national  advantages  acquired  upon 
similar  conditions,  a  great  advance  will  be  made  to- 
wards a  Christian  democracy. 

E.  B.  SEDGWICK 

4 

Phoebe  Gary,  born  1824 

YOU  never  said  a  word  to  me 
That  was  cruel  under  the  sun; 
It  is  n't  the  thing  you  do,  darling, 
But  the  things  you  leave  undone. 

PHOZBE  GARY 


eptemfcer 


THINK  on  this  doctrine, — that  reasoning  beings 
were  created  for  the  sake  of  one  another;  that  to 
be  patient  is  a  part  of  justice; — and  thatmen  sin  with- 
out intending  it.  MARCUS  AURELIUS 


HE  who  would  do  good  to  another  must  do  it  in 
minute  particulars; 

General  good  is  the  plea  of  the  scoundrel,  hypocrite, 
and  flatterer.  WILLIAM  BLAKE 


IF  I  were  an  American,  as  I  am  an  Englishman, 
while  a  foreign  troop  was  landed  in  my  country 
I  would  never  lay  down  my  arms, — never!  never! 

never!  WILLIAM  PITT 

8 

A  RIGHTEOUS  man  regardeth  the  life  of  his  beast. 

SOLOMON 

9 

F  we  have  not  ruled  ourselves  by  the  rudder,  we 
shall  be  ruled  by  the  rock. 

CORNISH  PROVERB 


I 


tptrafcer 


IO 

NEVER  allow  yourself  to  do  a  wrong  thing  be- 
cause it  seems  trifling,  nor  to  neglecl  doing  a 
good  action  because  it  seems  to  be  small. 

CHINESE  MAXIM 


B 


I  I 

E  what  you  wish  others  to  become.  Let  yourself, 
and  not  your  words,  preach. 

AMIEL'S  JOURNAL 

12 

BLESSED  is  the  man  who,  having  nothing  to 
say,  abstains  from  giving  us  wordy  evidence  of 

the  faa-  GEORGE  ELIOT 

13 

a  day  once  and  render  all  days  following  im- 
mortal thereafter.  ALCOTT 


EV^E 
m 


14     .... 

IT  is  required  that  we  should  aim  at  living  in  the 
community  of  nations,  as  well-bred  people  live  in 
society,  gracefully  acknowledging  the  rights  of  others. 

GRANT  DUFF 


eptember 


15 

THE  prayer  of  Dr.  LymanBeecherwas:"O  Lord, 
grant  that  we  may  not  despise  our  rulers;  and 
grant,  O  Lord,  that  they  may  not  act  so  we  can't  help 
it!" 

16 

OMAN  KIND'S  God!  most  silent  and  most  lowly 
Is  wisdom's  entrance  to  our  hearts;  with  less 
Of  conscious  power  than  self-forgetfulness 
And  an  enduring  patience. 


B 


17 

ROTHERHOOD  is  a  fad  not  needing  to  be 
built  up  but  recognized.  T       TT 

1 8 

OTRUE  believers,  carefully  avoid  entertaining 
a  suspicion  of  another,  for  some  suspicions  are 
a  crime;  and  inquire  not  too  curiously  into  other  men's 
failings.  KORAN 

WHAT  is  great  in  man  is  that  he  is  a  bridge 
and  not  a  goal. 

FRIEDRICH  ZARATHUSTRA 


cpttmbtr 


T 


20 

1O  a  rational  being  it  is  the  same  thing  to  ad:  ac- 
cording to  nature  and  according  to  reason. 

MARCUS  AURELIUS 

21 

WOE  to  the  people  who  delegate  their  defence 
to  a  class  specially  trained  and  kept  for  this 
purpose;  it  creates  a  standing  army,  the  most  terrible 
tool  in  the  hands  of  the  governing  class,  and  inevi- 
tably used  by  them  to  control  the  people. 

22 

HAPPINESS  is  a  perfume  you  cannot  pour  on 
others  without  getting  a  few  drops  yourself. 


ENVY  detects  the  spots  in  the  clear  orb  of  light, 
And  love,  the  little  stars  in  the  gloomiest,  sad- 
dest  night.  TRENCH 


THE  most  valuable  result  of  education  is  the  abil- 
ity to  make  yourself  do  the  thing  you  ought  to 
do,  when  it  ought  to  be  done,  whether  you  like  to  do 
it  or  not.  HUXLEY 


eptemfcer 


A  .-AS!  to  her  high  place  thro*  sea-deep  tears, 
Earth  wins  her  long,  slow,  agonizing  way ! 
The  base,  triumphant  Despot  of  a  day 
Is  weary  Anarch  of  a  thousand  years. 
And  yet  this  many  a  spring  the  boughs  are  sheen 
With  the  almost  forgotten  bloom !  Call,  Sea, 
Unto  all  faithful  souls,  Doubt  not, 
Aspire  to  lead  earth's  struggling  thought 
Still  up,  bring  what  from  full  hearts  gushes  free, 
He  who  doth  blend  and  shape  the  whole  finds  noth- 

(Hymn  to  the  Sea)  ANNE  WHITNEY 

26 

To  do  so  no  more  is  the  truest  repentance. 

LUTHER 


A 


MAN'S  own  good  breeding  is  his  best  security 
against  other  people's  ill  manners. 

/~i  CHESTERFIELD 

25 

Frances  Willard,  born  1839 

IT  is  not  enough  that  women  should  be  home- 
makers,  but  they  must  make  the  world  itself  a 
large  home.  FRANCES  WILLARD 


tptemfcer 


29 

GO  make  thy  garden  fair  as  them  canst, 
Thou  workest  never  alone; 
For  another  whose  plot  is  next  to  thine 
May  see  it  and  mend  his  own. 

3° 

FOUR  things  a  man  must  learn  to  do 
If  he  would  make  his  record  true: 
To  think  without  confusion  clearly; 
To  love  his  fellow-men  sincerely; 
To  act  from  honest  motives  purely; 
To  trust  in  God  and  Heaven  securely. 

HENRY  VAN  DYKE 


October 

'The  month  of  carnival  of  all  the  year, 

When  nature  lets  the  wild  earth  go  her  way 

And  spend  whole  seasons  on  a  single  day. 

'The  springtide  holds  her  white  and  purple  dear; 

October,  lavish,  flaunts  them  far  and  near; 
The  summer  charily  her  reds  doth  lay 
Like  jewels  on  her  costliest  array, 

October,  scornful,  burns  them  on  a  bier. 

HELEN  HUNT  JACKSON 


(October 


IN  the  drift  of  things  and  forces, 
Comes  the  better  from  the  worse, 
Swings  the  whole  of  Nature  upward; 
Wakes,  and  thinks — a  universe. 

There  will  be  more  life  to-morrow, 

And  of  life,  more  life  that  knows; 
Though  the  sum  of  Force  be  constant, 

Yet  the  Living  ever  grows. 

LOUISA  S.  BEVINGTON 


N 


OT  how  much  talent  have  I,  but  how  much 
will  to  use  the  talent  that  I  have. 


3 

WHEN  you  have  spoken  the  word,  it  reigns 
over  you;  but  while  it  is  unspoken,  you  reign 

over  it.  A 

ARABIC  JTROVERB 


PLATO  again  and  again  comes  back  to  the  posi- 
tion that  the  end  of  the  state  is  the  production 
of  men  and  not  of  wealth.  £ 


©ttober 


T 


RUTH  is  as  impossible  to  be  soiled  by  any  out- 
ward touch  as  the  sunbeam.  *, 


B 

E 


Y  the  street  of  By  and  By,  one  arrives  at  the 
house  of  Never. 

7 

VER  since  there  has  been  so  great  a  demand  for 
type,  there  has  been  much  less  lead  to  spare  for 


cannon.  T> 

BULWER 


8 


THE  greatest  of  faults  is  to  be  conscious  of  none. 

CARLYLE 


DAYS  change  so  many  things,  yes,  hours, 
We  see  so  differently  in  sun  and  showers, 
Mistaken  words  to-night 
May  be  lamented  by  to-morrow's  light; 
Let  us  be  patient,  for  we  know 
There's  but  a  little  way  to  go. 


©ttobtr 


T 


10 

HE  most  magnificent  sign  of  wisdom  is  con- 
tinued cheerfulness.  -^ 

EMERSON 


I  I 

NAE  treasures  nor  pleasures 
Could  make  us  happy  lang; 
The  heart  ay 's  the  part  ay, 
That  makes  us  right  or  wrang. 

ROBERT  BURNS 

12 

HEN  you  dispute  with  a  fool,  he  is  very  cer- 
tain to  be  similarly  employed. 


w 


'3 

REMEMBER  what  Simonides  said,  — that  he 
never  repented  that  he  had  held  his  tongue,  but 

often  that  he  had  spoken. 

.TLUTARCH 

14 

IF  troubles  were  put  to  market,  I  'd  sooner  buy 
old  than  new.  It's  something  to  have  seen  the 

worst.  ^  T? 

GEORGE  ELIOT 


15 

REMEMBER  this  —  that  there  is  a  proper  dig- 
nity and  proportion  to  be  observed  in  the  per- 
formance of  every  aft  of  life. 

MARCUS  AURELIUS 

16 

WHEN  the  outlook  is  not  good,  try  the  uplook. 


T 


HE  most  difficult  of  the  fine  arts  is  the  fine  art 
of  living  together. 

DAVID  SWING 

1.8 

PERISH  dark  memories! 
There's  light  ahead; 
This  world's  for  the  living, 
Not  for  the  dead. 

Down  the  great  currents 

Let  the  boat  swing; 
There  was  never  winter 

But  brought  the  spring. 

EDWARD  ROWLAND  SILL 


19 

WHEN  there  is  much  beauty  and  strength  we 
can  afford  to  be  silent  about  slight  defefts; 
we  refine  our  tastes  more  effectually  by  venerating  the 
grand  and  lovely,  than  by  detecting  the  little  and  mean. 
MARGARET  FULLER  OSSOLI 

20 

IN  any  troubles  and  misunderstandings  which  you 
may  experience  as  arising  from  your  relations  with 
others,  do  not  forget  the  Friendly  Board  of  Arbitra- 
tion—  Love,  Sincerity,  Truth. 

2  I 

I'M  willin'  a  man  should  go  tollable  strong 
Agin  wrong  in  the  abstract,  fer  thet  kind  o'  wrong 
Is  oilers  unpop'lar  an'  never  gits  pitied, 
Because  it's  a  crime  no  one  never  committed; 
But  he  mus'  n't  be  hard  on  partickler  sins, 
Coz  then  he'll  be  kickin'  the  people's  own  shins. 

LOWELL 

22 

THE  gentle  minde  by  gentle  deeds  is  knowne; 
For  a  man  by  nothing  is  so  well  bewrayed 
As  by  his  manners.  SPENSER 


October 


THE  evening  of  life  brings  with  it  its  own  lamps. 

JOUBERT 

24 

KEEP  holy  watch  with  silence,  prayer,  and  fasting, 
Till  morning  break  and  all  the  bugles  play: 
Unto  the  One  aware  from  everlasting 

Dear  are  the  winners  —  thou  art  more  than  they. 

Forth  from  this  Peace  on  manhood's  quest  thou  goest 
Flushed  with  resolve  and  radiant  in  mail; 

Blessings  supreme  for  men  unborn  thou  sowest, 
O  knight-elect,  O  soul  ordained  to  fail. 
(The  Vigil  at  Arms)  LOUISE  IMOGEN  GUINEY 


WHILE  the  Kings  of  eternal  evil 
Yet  darken  the  hills  about, 
Thy  part  is  with  broken  sabre 
To  rise  on  the  last  redoubt; 

To  fear  not  sensible  failure, 

Nor  covet  the  game  at  all, 
But  fighting,  fighting,  fighting, 

Die  driven  against  the  wall  ! 

LOUISE  IMOGEN  GUINEY 


26 

THE  only  way  to  have  a  friend  is  to  be  one. 

EMERSON 

27 

MY  wealth  is  common:  I  possess 
No  petty  province,  but  the  whole; 
What 's  mine  alone  is  mine  far  less 
Than  treasure  shared  by  every  soul. 

DAVID  A.  WASSON 

28 

BE  good,  sweet  maid,  and  let  who  will  be  clever; 
Do  noble  things,  not  dream  them,  all  day  long; 
And  so  make  life,  death,  and  that  vast  forever, 
One  grand,  sweet  song. 

KINGSLEY 

29 

'John  Keats,  born  1795 

A  THING  of  beauty  is  a  joy  forever; 
Its  loveliness  increases;  it  will  never 
Pass  into  nothingness;  but  still  will  keep 
A  bower  quiet  for  us,  and  a  sleep 
Full  of  sweet  dreams,  and  health,  and  quiet  breathing. 

KEATS 


October 


3° 

A  MAN'S  life  consisteth  not  in  the  abundance  of 
the  things  which  he  possesseth. 

GOSPEL  OF  LUKE 

31 

"ALL  things  come  to  him  who  waits"  —  on  himself. 

9 


Dear  Lord!  kind  Lord ! 

Gracious  Lord!  I  pray 
Thou  wilt  look  on  all  I  love, 

Tenderly  to-day  ! 
Weed  their  hearts  of 'weariness ; 

Scatter  every  care, 
Down  a  wake  of  angels'  wings 

Winnowing  the  air. 

Bring  unto  the  sorrowing 

AH  release  from  pain; 
Let  the  lips  of  laughter 

Overflow  again; 
And  with  all  the  needy 

O  divide,  I  pray, 
This  vast  treasure  of  content 

That  is  mine  to-day. 

JAMES  WHITCOMB  RILEY 


HEAVEN  has  more  gates  than  Thebes  ever  had, 
I  believe,  and  I  cannot  suppose  that  these  people 
or  any  others  must  borrow  my  key. 

HOLMES 


2 
HE  preaches  well  that  lives  well. 


SANCHO  PANZA 


3 

William  Cullen  Bryant,  born  1794 
...  A  THOUSAND  cheerful  omens  give 

Hope  of  yet  happier  days  whose  dawn  is  nigh. 
He  who  has  tamed  the  elements,  shall  not  live 

The  slave  of  his  own  passions;  he  whose  eye 
Unwinds  the  eternal  dances  of  the  sky, 

And  in  the  abyss  of  brightness  dares  to  span 
The  sun's  broad  circle,  rising  yet  more  high, 

In  God's  magnificent  works  his  will  shall  scan — 

And  love  and  peace  shall  make  their  paradise  with 
man.  BRYANT 


H 


EAVEN  is  theirs  who  are  trying  to  make  a 
heaven  of  this  earth. 


N  ounce  of  cheerfulness  is  worth  a  pound  of  sad- 
ness to  serve  God  with. 

FULLER 


u 

OH,  if  we  draw  a  circle  premature, 
Heedless  of  far  gain, 
Greedy  for  quick  returns  of  profit,  sure, 

Bad  is  our  bargain.  BROWNING 

7 

THINK  often  of  men's  worthy  ways, 
Speak  rarely  of  their  bad  ones; 
Sing  freely  of  your  happy  days, 
Keep  silent  of  your  sad  ones. 

W.  R.  ALGER 

8 

TO-MORROW  AND  TO-DAY 

TO-MORROW  hath  a  rare,  alluring  sound; 
To-day  is  very  prose;  and  yet  the  twain 
Are  but  one  vision  seen  through  altered  eyes. 
Our  dreams  inhabit  one;  our  stress  and  pain 
Surge  through  the  other. 

RICHARD  BURTON 


B 


Y  taking  revenge  a  man  is  but  even  with  his  enemy, 
but  in  passing  it  over  he  is  superior. 

10 

REDREN,"saidParson  Black,  earnestly,  "dere 
am  some  folks  in  which  de  still,  small  voice  ob 
conscience  keeps  a-gettin'  stiller  an'  smaller,  until  at 
las'  it'd  hab  ter  1'arn  de  deef  an'  dumb  langwinge  if 
it  wants  ter  attract  dir  attention!" 

I  I 

THE  reaction  of  matter  on  spirit  is  something  for 
which  we  do  not  always  make  due  allowance. 

BOEHME 

12 

BE  noble  !  and  the  nobleness  that  lies  in  other  men, 
sleeping  but  never  dead,  will  rise  in  majesty  to 
meet  thine  own. 


T 


Robert  Louis  Stevenson,  born  1850 
HERE  is  no  duty  we  so  much  underrate  as  the 
duty  of  being  happy. 

R.  L.  STEVENSON 


T 


I 


14 

HE  more  we  know,  the  better  we  forgive — 
Whoe'er  feels  deeply  feels  for  all  who  live. 

MADAME  DE  STAEL 

15 

T  is  surely  better  to  pardon  too  much  than  to  con- 
demn too  much.  ^  T-, 

LrEORGE  ±LLIOT 

16 

BE  cheerful.  Give  this  lonesome  world  a  smile, 
We  stay,  at  longest,  but  a  little  while; 
Hasten  we  must,  or  we  shall  lose  the  chance 
To  give  the  gentle  word,  the  kindly  glance; 
Be  sweet  and  tender,  that  is  doing  good ; 
'Tis  doing  what  no  other  good  deed  could. 

17 

STAND  close  to  all,  but  lean  on  none, 
And  if  the  crowd  desert  you, 
Stand  just  as  fearlessly  alone 
As  if  a  throng  begirt  you; 
And  learn  what  long  the  wise  have  known, 
Self-flight  alone  can  hurt  you. 

WILLIAM  S.  SHURTLEFF 


j&o  timber 

18 

IT  is  easy  in  the  world  to  live  after  the  world's 
opinion;  it  is  easy  in  solitude  to  live  after  our 
own;  but  the  great  man  is  he  who  in  the  midst  of  the 
crowd  keeps  with  perfect  sweetness  the  independence 
of  solitude.  EMERSON 

19 

I  HOLD  him  great  who  for  love's  sake 
Can  give  with  generous  earnest  will; 
Yet  he  who  takes  for  love's  sweet  sake, 
I  think  I  hold  more  generous  still. 

2O 

WHY  thus  longing,  thus  forever  sighing, 
For  the  far-off,  unattained,  and  dim, 
While  the  beautiful,  all  around  thee  lying, 
Offers  up  its  low,  perpetual  hymn? 

HARRIET  WINSLOW  SEWALL 

21 

THE  hardest  duty  bravely  performed  soon  be- 
comes a  habit,  and  tends  in  due  time  to  trans- 
form itself  into  a  pleasure.  HOLMES 


Jiotoemfcer 


22 

Marian  Evans  Lewes  Cross,  born  1819 

OMAY  I  join  the  choir  invisible 
Of  those  immortal  dead  who  live  again 
In  minds  made  better  by  their  presence; 

May  I  reach 

That  purest  heaven,  —  be  to  other  souls 
The  cup  of  strength  in  some  great  agony, 
Enkindle  generous  ardor,  feed  pure  love, 
Beget  the  smiles  that  have  no  cruelty, 
Be  the  sweet  presence  of  a  good  diffused, 
And  in  diffusion  ever  more  intense! 
So  shall  I  join  the  choir  invisible, 
Whose  music  is  the  gladness  of  the  world. 

GEORGE  ELIOT 


G 


23 

REATNESS  lies  not  in  being  strong,  but  in 
the  right  using  of  strength. 

HENRY  WARD  BEECHER 


24 

IFE  is  not  so  short  but  that  there  is  always  time 
enough  for  courtesy. 


EMERSON 


25 

TALK  happiness;  the  world  is  sad  enough 
Without  your  woes.  No  path  is  wholly  rough 
Look  for  the  places  that  are  smooth  and  clear 
And  speak  of  these,  to  rest  the  weary  ear 
Of  earth,  so  hurt  by  one  continuous  strain 
Of  human  discontent,  and  grief,  and  pain. 

ELLA  WHEELER  WILCOX 


M 


26 

AKE  a  living,  but  remember  there  is  one  thing 
better  than  making  a  living — making  a  life. 
Gov.  WILLIAM  E.  RUSSELL 


27 

^  I  ^HE  human  heart  becomes  softened  by  hearing 
X.     of  instances  of  gentleness  and  consideration. 

PLUTARCH 

28 

William  Blake,  born  1757 

A  TRUTH  that's  told  with  bad  intent 
Beats  all  the  lies  you  can  invent. 


29 

Louisa  May  Alcott,  born  1832 

WRITTEN  OF  THOREAU 

FOR  such  as  he  there  is  no  death; 
His  life  the  eternal  life  commands; 
Above  man's  aims  his  nature  rose: 
The  wisdom  of  a  just  content 
Made  one  small  spot  a  continent, 
And  turned  to  poetry  Life's  prose. 

LOUISA  MAY  ALCOTT 

3° 

FOR  the  sake  of  my  child,  I  must  hasten  to  save 
All  the  children  on  earth  from  the  jail  and  the 
grave; 

For  so,  and  so  only,  I  lighten  the  share 
Of  the  pain  of  the  world  that  my  darling  must  bear — 
Even  so,  and  so  only ! 

CHARLOTTE  PERKINS  STETSON 


December 

Announced  by  all  the  trumpets  of  the  sky, 
Arrives  the  snow,  and  driving  o'er  the  fields, 
Seems  nowhere  to  alight:  the  whited  air 
Hides  hills  and  woods,  the  river,  and  the  heaven, 
And  veils  the  farm-house  at  the  garden's  end. 
The  sled  and  traveller  stopped,  the  courier's  feet 
Delayed,  all  friends  shut  out,  the  housemates  sit 
Around  the  radiant  fireplace,  enclosed 
In  a  tumultuous  privacy  of  storm. 

EMERSON 


Becemfcer 

i 

[E  time  has  come.  The  right  has  found  its 
X     formula:  human  federation. 

VICTOR  HUGO 

2 

THE  way  to  gain  a  good  reputation  is  to  endeavor 
to  be  what  you  desire  to  appear. 

SOCRATES 

3 

THE  common  problem,  yours,  mine,  every  one's, 
Is  not  to  fancy  what  were  fair  in  life 
Provided  it  could  be, — but  finding  first 
What  may  be,  then  how  to  make  it  fair 
Up  to  our  means;  a  very  different  thing. 

BROWNING 

4 

Thomas  Cartyle,  born  1795 

AM  AN  with  a  half  volition  goes  backwards  and 
forwards,  makes  no  way  on  the  smoothest  road. 
A  man  with  a  whole  volition  advances  on  the  rough- 
est, and  will  reach  his  purpose  even  if  there  be  little 
wisdom  in  it. 


CARLYLE 


Bmntbrr 


D 


OESN'T  the  world  look  to  you  like  a  wreck? 
Yes,  but  like  the  wreck  of  a  bursting  seed. 


I 


T  is  worth  more  to  the  world  to  have  a  man  live 
right  than  to  die  happy. 


R 


EASONING  well  leads  to  acting  well;  justness 
in  the  mind  becomes  justice  in  the  heart. 

VICTOR  HUGO 

8 

THE  man  who  has  governed  his  thoughts  has 
achieved  a  victory  over  himself;  he  has  mas- 
tered his  passions,  schooled  his  affections,  and  put 

his  body  under  him.  T  T 

7  JOSEPH  JEFFERSON 

9. 

THE  ill-time  truth  we  might  have  kept — 
Who  knows  how  sharp  it  pierced  and  stung! 
The  word  we  had  not  sense  to  say  — 
Who  knows  how  grandly  it  had  rung. 

EDWARD  ROWLAND  SILL 


IO 

PEACE  is  the  virtue  of  civilization ;  war  is  its  crime. 

VICTOR  HUGO 


w 


I  I 

HYever  make  man's  good  distinct  from  God's, 
Or,  finding  they  are  one,  why  dare  distrust? 

BROWNING 

12 

WHAT  men  want  is  not  talent,  it  is  purpose;  or 
in  other  words  not  the  power  to  achieve,  but 
the  will  to  labor.  BULWER 

13 

Phillips  Brooks,  born  1835 

ENERGY,  love,  and  faith,  those  make  the  perfect  man. 

PHILLIPS  BROOKS 


RICH  through  my  brethren's  poverty. 
Such  wealth  were  hideous  !  I  am  blest 
Only  in  what  they  share  with  me, 
In  what  I  share  with  all  the  rest. 

LUCY  LARCOM 


Bmtnber 


15 

^  I  AHE  signs  are  bad  when  folks  commence 

X     A-findin'  fault  with  Providence, 
And  balkin'  'cause  the  earth  don't  shake 
At  every  prancin'  step  they  take. 
No  man  is  great  till  he  can  see 
How  less  than  little  he  would  be 
Ef  stripped  to  self,  and  stark  and  bare 
He  hung  his  sign  out  anywhere. 

LOWELL 


i 


16 

FIND  the  great  thing  in  this  world  is  not  so  much 
where  we  stand,  as  in  what  direction  we  are  moving. 
.  But  we  must  sail,  and  not  drift,  nor  lie  at  anchor. 

HOLMES 


17 

John  Greenleaf  Whittier,  born  1 807 

OH  make  Thou  us,  through  centuries  long, 
In  peace  secure,  in  justice  strong; 
Around  our  gift  of  freedom  draw 
The  safeguards  of  thy  righteous  law: 
And,  cast  in  some  diviner  mould, 
Let  the  new  cycle  shame  the  old. 

WHITTIER 


Bmmber 

18 


I 


S  thy  cruse  of  comfort  failing?  Scanty  fare  for  one 
will  often  make  a  royal  feast  for  two. 

ELIZA  CHARLES 


19 


Mary  A.  Livermore,  born  182,0 

GOD  made  man  and  woman  two  halves  of  one 
whole,  equal,  but  different.  He  made  them  for 
the  same  cause,  and  to  the  same  ultimate  end. 
There  is  but  one  standard  of  morality  for  both,  and 
but  one  law  of  right,  which  is  supreme  and  from  which 
there  is  no  appeal. 

MARY  A.  LIVERMORE 

20 

IT  is  the  little  rift  within  the  lute, 
That  by  and  by  will  make  the  music  mute, 
And  ever  widening  slowly  silence  all. 

TENNYSON 


N 


21 

OR  knowest  thou  what  argument 
Thy  life  to  thy  neighbor's  creed  has  lent. 

EMERSON 


Bmmfctr 


22 

YOU  hadn't  ought  to  blame  a  man  for  things  he 
hasn't  done, 

For  books  he  hasn't  written,  er  fights  he  hasn't  won; 
The  waters  may  look  placid  on  the  surface  all  aroun', 
An'  yet  there  may  be  undertow  a  keepin'  of  him  down. 

Since  the  days  of  Eve  and  Adam,  when  the  fight  of 
life  began, 

It  ain't  been  safe,  my  brethren,  fer  to  lightly  blame 
a  man; 

He  may  be  tryin'  faithful  fer  to  make  his  life  a  go, 

An'  yet  his  legs  git  tangled  in  the  treach'rous  under- 
tow. 

23 

ONLY  the  prism's  obstruction  shows  aright 
The  secret  of  a  sunbeam,  breaks  its  light 
Into  the  jewelled  bow,  from  blankest  white, 
So  may  a  glory  from  defect  arise. 

BROWNING 

24 

A  SCRATCH  in  a  stick  of  timber  may  lead  to  its 
y~\_  splitting  asunder,  and  a  word  rashly  spoken,  and 
unretracted,  may  have  in  it  the  voice  of  doom. 

E.  B.  SEDGWICK 


Bmmber 


A  CHRISTMAS  WISH 

WHAT  blessing  can  I  wish  you,  O  my  friends, 
Save  that  the  joyful  calm  of  Christmas-tide 
Should  wrap  your  hearts  so  close  that  never  jar 
Of  the  world's  care  or  grief  can  enter  in, 
But  only  love,  to  keep  you  pitiful, 
And  faith,  and  hope,  to  keep  you  strong  and  true; 
"A  Merry  Christmas"  and  "A  Glad  New  Year," 
I  wish  you,  and  may  God's  exceeding  love 
Enfold  you  all,  until  His  tender  hand 
Shall  lead  you  safely  Home,  to  love's  own  land! 

IN  the  pure  soul  although  it  sing  or  pray, 
The  Christ  is  born  anew  from  day  to  day ; 
The  life  that  knoweth  Him  shall  hide  apart 
And  keep  eternal  Christmas  in  the  heart. 

ELIZABETH  STUART  PHELPS 

26 

SILENCE  is  one  great  art  of  conversation. 

HAZLITT 

27 

Go  forward,  face  new  times,  the  better  day. 

BROWNING 


28 

EZ  fer  war,  I  call  it  murder, — 
There  you  hev  it  plain  an'  flat; 
I  don't  want  to  go  no  furder 

Than  my  Testyment  fer  that; 
God  hez  sed  so  plump  an'  fairly, 

It's  ez  long  ez  it  is  broad, 
An'  you've  gut  to  git  up  airly 
Ef  you  want  to  take  in  God. 

LOWELL 


A 


29 

GREAT  man's  path  is  strewn  with  the  things 
he  has  learned  to  do  without. 

PHILLIPS  BROOKS 


3° 

ET  me  no  wrong  or  idle  word 
Unthinking  say; 
Set  Thou  a  seal  upon  my  lips 
Just  for  to-day. 

So  for  to-morrow  and  its  needs, 

I  do  not  pray, 
But  guard  me,  guide  me,  keep  me,  Lord, 

Just  for  to-day. 


Becemfcer 


31 

MEN  who  see  into  their  neighbors  are  very  apt 
to  be  contemptuous;  but  men  who  see  through 
them  find  something  lying  behind  every  human  soul 
which  it  is  not  for  them  to  sit  in  judgment  on,  or  to 
attempt  to  sneer  out  of  the  order  of  God's  manifold 
universe.  HOLMES 


Whoever  thinks  a  faultless  piece  to  see, 

'Thinks  what  ne'er  was,  nor  is,  nor  e'er  shall  be. 


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